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Dragging kids to the library

The nation’s children have recently endured two years of social and educational deprivation. They are now more depressed, less able to socialise, behind with reading and counting and very young ones are having problems with facial recognition and communication. Scare the bejeebers out of them about a virus that they were unlikely to become infected […]

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Room for all in the TARDIS

So, The Doctor in Dr Who is going to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who is a black Scot of ambiguous sexuality. That’s three oppressed minorities ticked off in one. And before Humberside’s finest boys in blue are round here to ‘check my thinking’, let me fire off a sincere virtue signal. There were rumours

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From Potsdam to Putin, the Democrats have driven American interventionism

It’s the Democrats, not the ‘neo-con’ bogeymen, who the world should worry about. The party that has always portrayed itself as standing up for the little guy has a long record of starting wars and provoking internal conflict. The Democrats are at the vanguard of divisive identity politics, strongly supporting the Defund the Police campaign

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Scouting for girls

My late mother, always the mistress of the malapropism, once referred to the ‘Gouds and Skites’ when, in fact, she meant to say the Guides and Scouts; what we used to refer to as the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. The clue to the binary gender distribution between the two movements was in the name.

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Google my @r$€

“Everything is brutal, now we’re being watched by Google” sang the Leicester based indie rock group Kasabian. It may not necessarily be brutal, but it is watching everything we do, making a record of the websites we visit, what we purchase, collecting our demographic details and sharing that information with others to whom it may

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DIY: Don’t do it yourself

The NHS, the Nanny State’s military wing, has worked hard to install itself at the centre of our lives, instead of focussing on the nation’s health. Not content with being the vanguard of the masking, jabbing, social distancing and lockdown fanatics, it has now fallen for its own rhetoric of ‘saving the NHS’ and is

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Lamenting lost Bobbies

I have lamented elsewhere the woeful state of our police in the United Kingdom, in which I reflected on the almost total lack of Bobbies or Robertas on the beat (and no, I don’t mean a la David Lammy). Instead they have been replaced by obese and ill dressed ‘community officers’, usually swigging cans of

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All shuttle, no cock

I was asking my 13 year old grandson about his week at school and he told me that he had been playing badminton, and really enjoyed it. That was the cue for me to expound on my own exploits on the badminton court, offer him some advice (actually, my only advice about badminton is that

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